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LONDON, Ont. — The Egyptian government has thrown out any notion of justice in accusing a London doctor and Toronto filmmaker with murder, the doctor's brother said Tuesday.

Mohammed Loubani, brother of Dr. Tarek Loubani, said Egyptian authorities have shown they will go to great lengths to trump up allegations against Loubani and John Greyson, who've been imprisoned in Cairo since Aug. 16.

"Every time the Egyptian government opens its mouth and says these ridiculous things about Tarek and John, we're saddened by those statements, but in a way we're hardened, because the more ridiculous things the Egyptian government says about the two of them, the more our case is made for us that there is no credible justice system in Egypt."

Media reports Tuesday claim handwritten allegations made a day after the men's arrest included murder.

"Who was murdered? When? How? Where? None of the things that you'd expect in a routine judicial process, and the reason is because there are no specifics. It's a political slur," Mohammed Loubani told QMI Agency.

The Canadians have been held in Cairo's notorious Tora prison and have been on a hunger strike for more than two weeks. Their detention was extended another 45 days last weekend.

The Prime Minister's Office has demanded that Loubani and Greyson, "in the absence of charges," be released immediately.

But Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, who recently met with his Egyptian counterpart, said Tuesday he "didn't see any light at the end of the tunnel" for Greyson and Loubani.

Baird called the continued detention of the two men unacceptable, and said he was working at the highest levels with the army-backed Egyptian government to secure their release.

The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations is calling upon the Conservative government to do more.

"John and Tarek have been unjustly detained by a foreign government, and are suffering in appalling conditions," said Kate Lawson, president of the faculty confederation.